Magic Summary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Attenborough
Genres: Horror, Thriller
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Anthony_Hopkins is a ventriloquist psychologically tormented by his dummy in the Richard_Attenborough thriller Magic (a film with a story that may seem familiar to those who have seen the Michael_Redgrave segment of Dead of Night, or the Cliff Robertson episode "The Dummy" from The_Twilight_Zone television series). William_Goldman based his screenplay on his best-selling novel. Hopkins plays Corky, a seedy magician who is hooted off the stage in the low-rent clubs that will stoop to hire him. But when he comes across a dummy named Fats, his career is energized. Corky sees in Fats everything he lacks himself -- confidence, creativity, and verbal agility. With the help of his agent Ben Greene (Burgess_Meredith), Corky rises to the top of the nightclub circuit. But with Corky's success comes an increased paranoia, and he turns down a TV contract, believing that it would mean taking a medical examination and that rumors of his mental instability might leak out. Corky takes off to a Catskills resort, run by Peggy Ann Snow (Ann-Margret), an old girlfriend now unhappily married to a volatile hick (Ed Lauter). While a frustrated Ben high tails it to the Catskills to find Corky, Corky discovers that he still has feelings for Peggy, but lands in the middle of a love triangle between the woman and her husband, where his schizophrenic personality manifests itself and additional murders occur. Paul Brenner, Rovi
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